Richard Bonk

Richard Bonk
Phone: 612-978-3302
Email: rbonk@usiwireless.com

Besides his work as an artist, Richard Bonk has a Masters of Education degree in Counseling and has worked in health care, counseling, human services, research and education for over 30 years. He currently works as a health educator and wellness coach and also teaches yoga and meditation. He has worked as a design associate in helping to launch Yoga International magazine and as an exhibit designer and fabricator for the Toledo (OH) Zoo – which included the design and creation of the award winning Diversity of Life and the Young Children’s Room.

• Current founding member of the Upper Midwest Arts and Healing Network

• Past planning committee for the Society for Arts in Healthcare 2010 conference

• Past President and founding member of the Twin Cities Artist’s Forum

• Project Art for Nature (PAN) current member

Workshops and Lectures (partial list)

• International REST Investigator’s Society Conference, 1998

• Normandale Community College, winter 2000

• Gustavus Aldolphus College, winter 2000 and 2001

•  University of Minnesota, Boynton Health Services holistic health seminar, 10/01

• The Role of Imagination in Healing, U of WI Medical School, 9/03

• The Midwest Labyrinth Festival, U of St. Catherine, 10/03

• The National Council for Geocosmic Research, 11/03

• The Gathering of Artists and Illustrators of Nature, 2/05

• Emerging Digerati, U of MN, Institute for New Media Studies, 3/04

• The Institute for Health and Healing at Abbott Northwestern Hospital, 10/05

• The Mayo Clinic Cancer Education Center, 2/06

• The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Buddha’s Birthday, 4/06

• The Society for Arts in Healthcare International Symposium, 4/06

• Regions Hospital, Health Resources Center, 4/07

• Ways of Knowing, University of MN and Life Sciences Foundation, 5/09

Exhibitions (partial list)

• Minnesota State Fair, 1998, 2001

• Minnesota Artist Organization’s 5 minutes of Fame web cast, 10/2002

• Rolling Plains Art Gallery, administered by Plains Art Museum, Fargo ND, 02-03

• Solo show as part of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Spirituality

   & Healing’s Otto Schmitt Symposium on Consciousness Research, 2/2003

• 5th International Exhibit of Digital Art, Havana, Cuba

• Gathering of Artists and Illustrators of Nature (GAIN), MN Wildlife Refuge, 01/04

• A Leap of Faith, Sue Hensel Gallery, 11/04

• Who Do You Think You Are?,The Digital Self Portrait, Post Picasso on-line, 11/04

• North East Minneapolis Artist’s Association Fall Fine Art Show, 04, 07, 08

• Southshore Annual Digital Show, Cohasset, MA, Spring 05

• Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, LA, CA, Fall 05

• Institute if Health and Healing, Abbott Northwest Hospital, Mpls, MN, 10/05

• Gathering of Artists and Illustrators of Nature (GAIN), Bell Museum, U of MN, 06

• Hudson Hospital Healing Arts Exhibit, fall 06

• Gallery 469, Northrup King Building, NE Mpls, shared studio space, 08

• Art-A-Whirl, NE Mpls, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10. 11, 12

• Gallery 360, Mpls, ongoing

• ZRS Fossils, ongoing

• The Wellness Center, Mpls, ongoing

• Powderhorn Art Fair, Mpls, 05, 06, 07, 09, 10. 11

• Phipps Center for the Arts, Hudson WI,winter/spring 07

• Medtronic International Center, MN, spring-summer 07

• Hennepin County Medical Center, Mpls, MN, summer 07

• Northland Bioneers Conference Nov, 07

• Boynton Health Services, U of MN, spring 08

• Abbott Northwestern Institute for Health and Healing, Dec 08 – Jan 09

• Vine Arts Center, ongoing as part as artists’ cooperative

• Hennepin County Government Center, Jan 09

• Bethesda Hospital, Apr – May 09

• Mandala Meander, various sites as part of the Midwest Arts in Healthcare Community

  Celebration, Apr – May 10

• Phipps Center for the Arts, Hudson WI, with Project Art for Nature, summer, 11

• Open Editions Prints, MCAD, Mpls, MN winter 2013

Artist Residencies

• Upsala, MN, K-12 school, 11/02,

• Stonebridge Elementary at Stillwater MN, 4/03

• Langdon, ND, K-12 school, 10/03

Commissions and Other Venues:

• Life Sciences Foundation, Summer 05

• Institute if Health and Healing, Abbott Northwest Hospital, Mpls, MN, Fall 05

• Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, Secret Gardens & Art to AMaze, summer, 06, 07, 2009 – collaboration with In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theater

• Forecast for Public Art Work, Spontaneous Storefronts, Mpls, winter/spring 07

• Otto Schmitt Lecture Series, Center for Spirituality & Healing, U of MN, 07

• Hennepin County Medical Center, Mpls, MN, summer 07

• The Wellness Center, Mpls, 08

• Prism Research, St. Paul, MN, 08

• Boynton Health Services, U of MN, spring 08

• Minnesota Healing Touch, spring 09

• Human Energy Matters, Jan 10

• the Society for Arts in Healthcare art for fundraiser, winter/spring 2010

• Hudson Hospital, Hudson WI, winter, 2011

• Virginia Piper Cancer Center. Fridley, MN winter 2011

• Women’s Health Center. Mpls, MN winter 2011

• Regions Hospital Mental Health Facilities. St Paul, MN fall 2012

• University of Minnesota Clinics, MN fall 2012

• greeting cards and calendars in various gift shops locally and nationally